U.S.-China Cooperative Research: Ecological Engineering - Theory and Development in the US and China

关于“生态工程”的建议：美国俄亥俄州立大学研究基金会的William Mitsch博士和David L. Johnson博士与中国中央研究院动物研究所的马世军、严劲松、李电谟教授共同举办了“中美理论与发展”研讨会。由美国国家科学基金会和中国科学院联合主办。这个合作项目将探索和定义生态工程的概念。“生态工程”和“生态技术”是指人类社会及其自然环境为双方的利益而进行的设计。尽管整体概念是相同的，但美国和中国的生态工程的一般方法有些不同。中美研究人员将合作确定生态工程的基本概念和理论（原则），包括自我设计、多层、弹性和恢复以及最大功率等概念。利用美国和中国六个研究地点的数学模型，研究人员将尝试对其中一些原理进行初步验证。

This proposal on "Ecological Engineering: Theory and Development in the U.S. and China" between Dr. William Mitsch and Dr. David L. Johnson of the Ohio State University Research Foundation and Professors Ma Shijun, Yan Jingsong, and Li Dianmo of the Institute of Zoology of the Academia Sinica, is jointly sponsored by NSF and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This cooperative program will explore and define the concept of ecological engineering. "Ecological engineering" and "ecotechnology" are terms used to indicate the design of human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both. The general approaches to ecological engineering are somewhat different in the U.S. and in China, although the overall concepts are the same. Chinese and American researchers will collaborate to identify underlying concepts and theories (principles) of ecological engineering, including concepts such as self design, multi layering, and resiliency and restoration, and maximum power. Using mathematical models of six research sites in both the U.S. and China, the investigators will attempt preliminary verification of some of these principles.